Your weaving digital design studio

WeavePoint is software for advanced weaving design – an efficient tool for creating, editing and analysing textile patterns and colourways, and building a library of your patterns. It can also directly control a Toika, ARM or Louët loom, or serve as an interactive prompt when weaving on a conventional loom.

Designing

Draw directly onto the design grid to create your pattern.  Switch yarn colours, choosing from a palette of thousands. Flip to the draft view and you will see that WeavePoint has created the threading, treadling (or liftplan) and tie-up (or draw-down) automatically. You can also edit directly on the draft view.

Importing a draft

WeavePoint supports the .wif file format, so you can purchase and import ready-made patterns, and edit them as required. We’ve used 13767, MacPhie Tartan from Handweaving.net in the image gallery as an example. WeavePoint has its own .wpo file format but can also export a draft to a .wif file so that you can share your drafts or sell your designs to others.

Fabric View

The fabric view shows a realistic preview of what your finished cloth should look like when woven. It will reflect the density of your weave and the properties of the yarns you have chosen for your project.

Project Planner

The Project Planner is a bonus program which determines the amount of yarn required based on the density and dimensions of your project. Tell it more about the linear density of your yarn and the price per kilo and it will calculate the cost your project too!

Treadle The Threading

This features helps you avoid mis-threading your heddles. Using Weave mode, you can follow instructions on-screen to treadle the appropriate shaft – this works with both computer controlled and manual looms. The thread number and colour shown on the screen, easy to see at a glance.

Weaving

If you have a computer controlled dobby WeavePoint can directly control your loom. Simply use your foot pedal to select the pick and you can focus on throwing your shuttle and beating – no treadling errors!

Available interfaces:

• Toika (EW, ES and ES+ models with 8, 16, 24 or 32 shafts)
• ARM (Patronic 24 shafts, Designer 24 shafts)
• Louet (Megado 16/32 shafts, Magic 24 shafts, Octado 8 shafts)

WeavePoint can also assist with weaving on a conventional treadled, jack or table loom. Advance or reverse the pattern with your mouse and you are shown the treadling or lift plan required for each pick. You can also set WeavePoint to chime when it is time to change the weft colour.

Upgrades

WeavePoint licenses are perpetual – they don’t have an expiry date. Minor upgrades are free, but if you want to upgrade from version 6, 7 or 8 to version 9 to make use of new functionality you can do so for a reduced price. Make sure you specify the same user name as your existing version and we will match it up with your license.